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Now you see her…

27 Tuesday Aug 2013

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50mm 1.4, b&w, black and white, blindfold, chiaroscuro, D700, light and shadow, portrait, PowerSnoot, SB-600, Silver Efex Pro, SpeedLight, strobe, two SpeedLights

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The whole point of this blog was to make it a handy reference tool for me, as I can never remember how I got specific shots – which lens/settings/light set-up, etc. I used. Luckily, I just found another shot from this shoot where I’d made a note of what I did. Yay me.

It seems I used one SB-600 in a softbox on full power camera right- raised up and pointing downwards, and an uncovered SB-600 on about one-sixteenth power camera left, behind the model and sitting on the floor, but aiming upwards. So there you go.

Camera Nikon D700
Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/16.0
Focal Length 50 mm
ISO Speed 200

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Posted by deemac1948 | Filed under black and white, portrait, speedlight

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Hard Boiled

26 Monday Aug 2013

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35mm, b&w, black and white, D700, f2, film noir, film noire, Gary Fong PowerSnoot, humphrey bogart, noir, noire, portrait, PowerSnoot, smoke, Snoot, strobe

Hard Boiled

We were just playing – aiming for a generic film noir look. My lovely son-in-law – always game for a laugh. We didn’t have any props, so we had to improvise. I must put a fedora and a trenchcoat on my shopping list.

One SB-600 with PowerSnoot camera left, on full power, at subject’s head height, shooting through a slatted wooden window blind. Had to do a lot of dodging and burning with this one, plus cloning in missing smoke and whatnot. The things I do for fun.

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Nikon D700
Exposure 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture f/16.0
Focal Length 35 mm
ISO Speed 200

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Sulky

25 Sunday Aug 2013

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45mm, b&w, black and white, boy, E-M5, natural light, Olympus, portrait, sulky, sulky child

Sulky

My grandson again. He was tired of posing as his expression shows. This one was natural light.

Camera Olympus E-M5
Exposure 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture f/4.0
Focal Length 45 mm
ISO Speed 200

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Posted by deemac1948 | Filed under black and white, natural light, portrait

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Blinded!

25 Sunday Aug 2013

Posted by deemac1948 in black and white, portrait, profile, speedlight

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20mm, blinded, blinds, D700, film noir, film noire, light and shadow, noir, noire, profile, slatted blinds, striped, strobe, tiger tiger, tyger tyger

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Take one slatted blind bought from a charity shot. Add a sunny day and a daughter willing to kneel patiently in front of said blind for ages, and eventually this is what you get. The sun only lasted for a second but luckily I was at the ready. Processed with Silver Efex Pro to highlight the shadows. This one won a Flickr competition open to sixty-four photographers from around the world.

Camera Nikon D700
Exposure 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture f/7.1
Focal Length 20 mm
ISO Speed 500

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